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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Monday (December 15, 2025) charged 7 persons successful the Pahalgam panic onslaught lawsuit successful a Jammu court, including Pakistani handler and violent Sajid Jatt of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF) violent organisations, and traced the conspiracy to Pakistan.
“Through a meticulous technological probe spanning the past astir 8 months, it had traced the conspiracy successful the lawsuit to Pakistan, which has been unabatedly sponsoring coercion against India,” an NIA spokesperson said.
The NIA invoked a penal Section of the instrumentality against the accused for “waging warfare against India”.
The 1,597-page charge expanse submitted to a peculiar tribunal named 3 Pakistani terrorists killed by Indian information forces during the enactment successful Operation Mahadev astatine Dachigam, Srinagar, successful July 2025. They were identified arsenic Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran, and Hamza Afghani, too Jatt.
Jatt is simply a Pakistani nationalist from Kasur territory successful Pakistan’s Punjab. Officials said his archetypal sanction is Habibullah Malik and helium had galore aliases, including Saifullah, Noomi, Numan, Langda, Ali Sajid, Usman Habib, and Shani.
The chargesheet details the conspiracy by Pakistan and the roles of the accused. “With supporting grounds successful the case, [the NIA] has charged the banned LeT/TRF arsenic a ineligible entity for its relation successful planning, facilitating, and executing the Pahalgam attack,” the NIA said.
The onslaught near 25 tourists and 1 section civilian dead.
The LeT and TRF, and the 4 accused terrorists, have been charged nether applicable provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023; the Arms Act, 1959; and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
The NIA besides chargesheeted 2 locals for allegedly harbouring terrorists. They were identified arsenic Parvaiz Ahmad and Bashir Ahmad Jothad, who were arrested by the NIA connected June 22, 2025.
“During interrogation, the 2 men had disclosed the identities of the 3 equipped terrorists progressive successful the attack, and had besides confirmed that they were Pakistani nationals affiliated to the proscribed LeT panic outfit,” the NIA said.
